For decades, American leaders have been tramping all over
the world and touting their democracy, even on occasion, waging wars on
others they say are not walking down the same path!
However, in recent times, the hypocrisy and madness that passes for democracy
in that country has been exposed for all to see.
A sea of posters of unknown people at Tamarac Library |
For, indeed, the emperor has no clothes.
While the Donald Trump fiasco has played out for the world
to see and the sickening polarization which stops all progress at the federal level
dominates, even at the important local level, what is passing for politics
is somewhat discombobulating.
But it seems that is what the voters want.
But in my book, if your city is not properly run, your entire existence can be difficult if not impossible.
It is in Tamarac where I currently reside where I have seen a kind of bureaucratic madness at the local level that would make all other administrations throughout the world appear to be super-efficient.
This involved the department that is in charge of building permits.
In this instance, a condo association was given a run
around for seven months, to get the approval to repair a small 2x4
opening in a condo.
Yup, SEVEN MONTHS!
That’s probably the time it would take to get approval to build an entire complex or a duplex in an efficient municipality!
It’s this kind of madness at the local level why people need to be conscious and vigilant about who they elect to run the affairs of their
city.
I don’t know if Tamarac City has a staff shortage in the building permit department, but it certainly couldn’t be because they have a shortage of funds to hire adequate staff. For they charge so much for a permit and you need one to do the simplest thing on the very inside of your condo.
All they all seem to do is to depend on posters to convince people to vote for them!
I am new to this city and for the upcoming election, only
one candidate bothered to visit to tell my household about himself and answer
questions. Two others sent around informational material, but look at the
hordes of posters of persons unknown, asking constituents to vote for
them!
I guess it works for them though, for most people seem to vote according to party, not for candidate they know from information gathered, will do the best job.
So, when they fail to perform, we the voters can only put the blame on
the posters, not ourselves.
No wonder we get such underperformance at the city level.
I guess they think people will park and go look at the names. The cash cow here is permits🙄
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